How Do I Set up an RTMP Stream to My Livestream Event?

Enterprise customers have access to stream their events using a third-party RTMP encoder (not sure what this means? See here).

To use this feature, navigate to the event you wish to stream. Click the Editor icon in the upper right corner to open the edit drawer.

Click the LiveTools menu.

Scroll to the bottom to find the RTMP Input option. Click GetLink.

You will be presented with a Stream Key and a Server URL along with a few additional options.

Before copying any of the given information, decide whether you want to send notifications to your followers when you go live, whether to save a recording of your stream to Livestream, and whether to publish that VOD immediately after you stop streaming.

Click Copy next to the Server URL and paste it into the URL field in your encoder's RTMP Output settings (the below example is using Open Broadcaster Software).

Click Copy next to the Stream Key. Most encoders have a field for Stream Key or Stream Name; paste this key into that field.

If your encoder does not have a field for this, put a forward slash (/) at the end of your RTMP URL, then paste the key immediately following it with no spaces).

Encoder Setup Recommendation

Livestream uses the incoming resolution to determine which qualities the cloud can transcode the video in. Lower incoming bitrates cannot be transcoded to higher qualities in the cloud; in other words, if you stream at a quality less than 720p, then your stream will not be available in 720p or 1080p.